The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle

The PR person for Latinos pro Derechos Humanos, Manolo Gomez, who’d arranged the radio “debate,” was beaten and left for dead in an alley. His car was firebombed. He was also fired from his job as an editor for the Spanish-language edition of Cosmopolitan magazine because he’d made public declarations about his homosexuality.

The referendum was held in 1974 by mail. Of the 17,905 APA members eligible to cast a vote, only 10,555 bothered to send in a ballot. Fifty-eight percent of them voted to uphold the board of trustees’s decision. The seventh printing of the DSM-II, which would be published later that year, would not include “homosexuality per se.”61

They were about to summon a Black Maria and have the obviously homosexual protestors dragged off. But Anthony Fauci wouldn’t let them. He wanted to hear what ACT UP had to say. He told the police to ask five or six of the protest leaders to come in, to meet with him in a conference room.

Frank Kameny shaking hands with President Barack Obama, who signed a memorandum in 2009 extending benefits to partners of federal employees. Vice President Joseph Biden, US Representative Barney Frank, US Senator Joe Lieberman, and US Representative Tammy Baldwin are witnesses.

The reports showed that under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, investigations of lesbian and gay service members were “as bad, if not worse” than before.

“Getting to know you and your family, I saw it differently.”

“New York Court Defines Family to Include Homosexual Couples,” the stunned editors of the New York Times announced when the case was settled in 1989.

If anyone missed the meaning of the oblong object that covered the house, the message printed on it informed them what it was: “A Condom to Stop Unsafe Politics: Helms Is Deadlier Than a Virus.” “What does this mean?” an Associated Press reporter superfluously asked Peter Staley. The newspapers quoted him faithfully: “We’re saying if you mess with

Two of the officials never answered. The DC chief of police responded with a note saying, “Sorry, I can’t accept your invitation because my wife would never stand for it.”3